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Drawing on the expertise of an international range of contributors, this book addresses questions from a psychoanalytic vantage point which have considerable meaning in clinical work with children who have ADHD. This book was originally published as a special issue of the
Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy.
List of contents
1. Introduction: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Children and the Psychoanalytic Process 2. ADHD via Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience, and Cognitive Psychology: Why Haven’t We Fielded a Team? 3. The Neural and Neurocognitive Determinants of ADHD 4. Psychoanalytic Treatment of ADHD Children in the Frame of Two Extraclinical Studies: The Frankfurt Prevention Study and the EVA Study 5. Trauma and ADHD – Association or Diagnostic Confusion? A Clinical Perspective 6. ADHD and Complex Trauma: A Descriptive Study of Hospitalized Children in an Urban Psychiatric Hospital 7. The Reality-Sampling Deficit and ADHD: Indication for an Active Technique 8. Psychoanalytic Conceptualizations of the Internal Object in an ADHD Child 9. Trouble Paying Attention 10. Is ADHD a Real Neurological Disorder or Collection of Psychosocial Symptomatic Behaviors? Implications for Treatment in the Case of Randall E. 11. Psychodynamic Play Therapy With a Six-Year-Old African American Boy Diagnosed With ADHD
About the author
Francine Conway is a full Professor at the Gordon F. Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi University, USA, and has been treating children diagnosed with ADHD over the past 14 years. In addition to her clinical experience, she has taught courses on ADHD and provided clinical supervision for students working with ADHD.
Summary
Drawing on the expertise of an international range of contributors, this book addresses questions from a psychoanalytic vantage point which have considerable meaning in clinical work with children who have ADHD. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy.
